Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
DSLR data and different ISO values of flats and lights
Since a few days I'm using my Nikon D7100 DSLR, together with my SW Esprit 80mm APO. The exposure time of the lights was 600 sec @ ISO 1600 so I also created some 50 darks with the same exposure time and ISO.
Since my flatpanel is quit bright, I decided to take the flat frames at ISO 200 to get a decent exposure time (3.3 secs). I also made 50 dark flats @ ISO 200 and around 250 BIAS frames @ ISO 200.
I didn't make a BPM yet for this camera (using the flats and darks), but was wondering about 2 things:
• is it possible to create a BPM using darks and flats that are of different ISO-settings? Or should I use the dark flats?
• in the older versions of APP there was a button "details" in the top center which I always used to check the percentage
of cold and hot pixels (should be around 3%), but this button is removed in the latest version of APP.
is it possible to create a BPM using darks and flats that are of different ISO-settings? Or should I use the dark flats?
A Bad Pixel Map is not ISO dependent for almost all camera's. I suggest you create a single BPM using a nice set of flats and darks. Regarding the darks, use at least 20. More is better. And the longer exposure the exposure time, the better as well. It will give better statistics on the non-linear pixels. So 50 darks with exposures of at least 2 minutes I would suggest 😉 . Darks made with higher temperature are actually better to create your Bad Pixel Map for the same reason as using longer exposure times.
in the older versions of APP there was a button "details" in the top center which I always used to check the percentage
of cold and hot pixels (should be around 3%), but this button is removed in the latest version of APP.
Please see the release notes about this, the left side of the image viewer can be moved to see the metadata 😉
Improved, Image Viewer Meta Data, the details checkbox, above the image viewer has been made redundant. You can now see the image metadata together with your image data. There is a splitpanel that you can move all the way from left to right now.
